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A British-Iranian academic has escaped from Iran on foot in a hazardous getaway through the mountains after he was sentenced to nine years in prison in the country. Kameel Ahmady, a dual national who has angered Iranian hard-liners with his work on sensitive issues like child marriage and FGM, was accused of working with foreign … Read more
Ex-Foreign Secretary Jeremy Hunt says the UK ‘is beginning to look weak’ and is being ‘pushed around’ over its failure to protect Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe. The British-Iranian dual national has been detained in Iran since 2016, when she was sentenced to five years in prison over allegations of plotting to overthrow the Iranian government. Iranian officials … Read more
British citizens who are wrongfully arrested and tortured overseas will have ‘no legal right to consular assistance’ or protection from the state, the Foreign Office has announced. In a letter to Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe’s lawyers, the Government said it was under no legal obligation to provide assistance to citizens who were falsely accused of a crime while travelling … Read more
Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe’s six-year-old daughter wants ‘mummy home for Christmas’ as family face up to fifth festive season since she was jailed in Iran Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe’s daughter has written Boris Johnson a Christmas card Gabriella, six, asked the prime minister to bring her mother home from Iran Nazanin was jailed in 2016 for allegedly plotting to … Read more
A dissident who claims he was tortured by Iran demanded the release of imprisoned British mother Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe as he was convicted of trying to torch a diplomatic car outside the Iranian Embassy. IT professional Sam Parsa, 60, was accused of planting a bottle of petrol along with a scarf into the exhaust pipe of … Read more